The pro-bono CPA mentioned in the 2016 report become unavailable, and the Foundation engaged a paid CPA in July 2017 (the FY2018 year, but worth mentioning).
The new CPA is aiding in the financial filings that are part of our 501(c)(6) process.
We have regained access to all bank accounts, but need to do further work in closing the oldest account due to it's legacy nature.
The new CPA has engaged with the IRS to figure out resolving our 501(c)(6) status.
To that end, we have outstanding requests to the IRS for the form 1024 filing that may have been filed by early trustees, and confirm if ANY 990 filings were made.
After that response (expected not sooner than late September), we can file a new Form 1024, and the many missing Form 990's.
We have regained access to all of our bank accounts, and opened a new CapitalOne checking account for the process of closing the old checking account (as it's tied to prior treasurer tsunam).
The formal switchover process for the savings account was very arduous, as we fell into problems with few bank staff knowing how to deal with legacy accounts.
One of the remaining issues is that only US residents may be listed on the bank accounts, so further work to find International bank accounts should be conducted.
The oldest checking account will be closed after the bank responds to our request for old statements (we estimate a small fee for the paperwork request).
The balances are in flux as we wait for missing statements, so there is no provisional statement included in this report. Instead I reported a selected set of information for the FY2017 year, rounded to the nearest $100
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